Linguists Margaret Renwick and Jon Forrest from the University of Georgia turned heads in 2023 after publishing a study about Georgia’s fading Southern accent. The Southern drawl − ...

In the American South, a linguistic transformation is quietly unfolding. The iconic Southern drawl is gradually fading among ...

While Friday Night Lights captured our hearts with the slow, lilting speech of West Texas, something about Posey's old ...

We’re shaping a new Georgia, a new South, every day,” Forrest explained. The decline of the Southern drawl is just one example of the evolving nature of speech in recent years. Another ...

like Uma Thurman’s Southern drawl in “Red, White & Royal Blue,” can be awfully fun. By Kyle Buchanan “Red, White & Royal Blue” waits just seven and a half minutes to get to the good ...